Henry --- Arsenal

Comeback :

Ronaldinho --- Barça.

Comeback :

Raul ---- Madrid :

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Most glorious end of Career : Zidane.

Madrid last game :

Zidane National team surprise comeback after retiring from Club : The king wants to play a last one.

What many people forget is that Zidane was not supposed to be there in the first place. The shock exit at the hands of Greece in Portugal at Euro 2004 had signalled what he called "the end of a cycle" and had convinced him that he should retire from international football. It was no longer for him. On 12 August 2004 he released a statement on his website. "I have thought long and hard over this decision.

I think that at a given moment you must say 'stop' … There have been some great players who retired in 2000 and 2002, other players are doing it and now I'm doing it."Almost exactly a year later Zidane would use that very same website to announce his return. There had been rumours that he would do so but Zidane had publicly denied them. When asked by L'Equipe for his reaction to the news, Christophe Dugarry, a former World Cup-winning team-mate of Zidane's, instructed the paper not to run the story as he thought somebody must have hacked the website. There had been no piracy involved, however, Zidane was back.

"For the very first time in my life I have decided to go back on my word which is very important for me," read his statement. "When I made the decision to retire I was very serious – today I have made the same decision but in reverse." Zidane had listened to the voice."One night, at 3am, I suddenly woke up and I then spoke with someone," he said, explaining his reason for coming out of international retirement. "Until I die I will never tell [who that person was], this is just too crazy. This is someone that you will probably never meet. During the hours that followed I was on my own with that person, at home, and I took the decision to come back. I had never experienced that before, I felt pushed by this force which dictated my behaviour.

It was a revelation for me, I had to obey that voice that was advising me."The manager of France, Raymond Domenech, publicly declared himself to be "extremely happy" that Zidane – as well as Claude Makélélé and Lilian Thuram – had decided to come out of retirement and so he should have been. Domenech had done very little to persuade the three players, who had a combined age of 98, to stay on when he took over from Jacques Santini in 2004 but his France side were struggling through World Cup qualification and in need of experienced professionals. The manager looked out of his depth. Writing about France and Zidane's return for the Observer a year before the tournament, Darren Tullett quoted one French World Cup winner as saying: "Domenech is a prat and we haven't got a clue what he's going on about half the time."The results at that stage in the qualification process backed up the player's claim. France may have been undefeated but there had been too many unconvincing displays in a weak enough group. That was especially true at home where they had racked up scoreless stalemates against Israel, Ireland and Switzerland (Cyprus and the Faroe Islands made up the rest of the group).

That left Domenech's side in fourth place, three points behind the group leaders, Ireland, with just four games to go. Their hopes of making Germany looked set to be dashed. However, with Makélélé, Thuram and Zidane restored to the squadFrance won three matches, drew the other, finished top of their group and the country could let out a sigh of relief.Three weeks before the end of La Liga's 2005-06 season, it was time for another announcement from Zidane. This was it for him. He was done with club and international football for good. "I have to listen to my body and I cannot carry on for another year. I think it is better to clarify the situation now. I have been thinking about it for a long time. It's been three years since we [Madrid] won anything and in two of those, I've not played as I've wanted. I am not going to play any better than I have done in the past. I don't want to just play for Real Madrid for the sake of it." There would be no more jaw-dropping volleys and there would be more balletic pirouettes, his signature move that left defenders rooted to the ground like an old tree. There would, however, be one last chance of glory on the biggest stage football has to offer.

While Spain, Brazil and Portugal all qualified from the group stages with three wins, nine points and the utmost of ease, France recreated their poor form from qualification.

June 27 2006: '' He is too old ''Before the last-16 World Cup game, the Spanish press taunt Zidane saying they would "retire" him. He scores the clinching goal

At this Moment knowing that France will meet Favourites, WC holders of 2002 with a much stronger squad than 2002, Ronaldinho - Ronaldo - Roberto Carlos - Cafu in addition to Kaka - Juninho - Adriano...

Everyone was saying in France that Zidane extended his retirement by one game and it was honourable at this time of competition to say goodbye.

Zidane all time best performence ( imo gave his scared team the impression that they were the Brazilians )

From this time, World cup win was possible, Zidane wanted it...

2 solid games one against a very good Portuguese side with an amazing CR7 in this WC, Zidane scoring the only winner and a Panenka in the final.

Prooved his immortality until he showed that he remains a mortal seing red vs Materazzi 3 minutes before the end of extra time, Trezeguet missed, France saw Italy lift the trophy deservingly because they also did a great WC.

But the comeback Zidane did after 2 years of abscence in the national squad is unique, its like Henry comming back to Arsenal getting them single handedly to CL final, out of this world...

Some of the magical emotional moment, you can share yours or the ones/players that gave you emotion after a departure/comeback last year performence....

I just remembered King Drogba last year, simply amazing how he won CL, if a Chelsea fan wants to do it...

Lahm's international team retirement is the only one I can think of right now.

The atmosphere at the Bernabeu back in the day. Breath taking, wish it would go back this this, instead of whistling our one players. Hurts the club's image, specially the fanbase's.

I'm starting to feel really old, all the legends I spent hours and hours watching on pitch are retired :(

Waiting for Ronaldo to make a return to Manchester United one day... or maybe even Real Madrid when he's done here.

Still yet to see proper 20minute tribute video to Thierry Henry from his WHOLE career that has been made after the retirement .. :|| at this rate I'm the one that has to do it lol ...

@tiki can't watch enough of that Zizou performance vs Brazil.

Good subject but even better post! +1

Ah man everytime I watch Zidane's highlights I feel gutted that he did not win that World Cup. France to me was clearly best team and Zidane should raised that cup . I was very upset whole week when he was sent out .

I have to mention Zola .

and Ofcourse Drobga

And Ofcourse Garry Nevile's orgasm

Never been so close to crying for a player leaving the club...